In the United States, Enviva Inc., the world's largest producer of wood pellets, held a groundbreaking ceremony in Alabama (AL) for the Epes Pellet Plant, which, once completed and fully operational, will be the world's largest
wood pellet plant to date.
Enviva has been active in Sumter County since its initial evaluation of the site in 2018. In 2020, Enviva acquired more than 300 acres of land in the Epes Industrial Park, located alongside the Tombigbee River in Sumter County, to build the largest wood pellet production plant to date.
In July 2022, the company began preparations for its fully contracted Epes plant, which will have a nameplate capacity of 1.1 million tons per year and is expected to be operational by mid-2024 and fully operational by 2025.
In evaluating and developing the project, Enviva chose to repurpose a former commercial site to build a new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility that will promote economic growth and bring jobs to the community it now calls home.
Once operational, the Epes plant is expected to provide approximately 100 direct jobs and 250 indirect jobs in neighboring industries including logging, trucking and shipping.
Enviva's Epes mill will be one of the county's largest taxpayers, bringing economic benefits to the community by funding programs such as road maintenance, schools, security and emergency services. Alabama's rich fiber supply, combined with favorable transportation logistics and a large local workforce, were some of the key factors that initially made the project sustainable and attractive to Enviva.
As part of its unwavering commitment to sustainability, Enviva will source fiber at the new facility and follow a strong set of practices and principles that have been successfully adopted at other Enviva facilities. The facility will sustainably and responsibly source wood from an area approximately 75 miles (120.7 kilometers) around the mill.
Pellets produced at the Epes plant will be exported to international markets, primarily Europe and Asia, and will help meet the international demand for safe renewable energy sources, which help eliminate carbon emissions from electricity and heat, reduce emissions for energy-intensive industries such as steel, cement, and lime, as well as produce sustainable aviation fuel.
In addition, the design of the Epes plant draws on the company's experience of building and operating 10 existing plants, providing an improved and modernized model known as EVA-1100. The patent-pending blueprint is being used as a standardized plant design for its future 1.1 million tonne per year plants, including Epes. Enviva plans to invest an average of $375 million per new plant, including the Epes plant, in the future.
About Kingwood
Kingwood located in Zhongguancun Industrial Park of Liyang City, Jiangsu Province, China. It is a high-tech enterprise dedicated to developing low-carbon, renewable energy equipment and advanced feed mill industry. Established in 1999, Kingwood has been providing a one-stop solution in biomass engineering, animal feed engineering, and spare parts business for our valued customers. Services of Kingwood include consultation, design, manufacture, logistic, installation, commissioning, training, and after-sales service for biomass/feed production line. Kingwood currently has ISO9000 and ISO14000 systems, certified by CE, and has won many awards in the biomass equipment industry. Kingwood currently has a large CNC punching center, a pellet machine assembly, a testing center, a large embryo forging base, a production line auxiliary equipment manufacturing base, a pellet production test center, and so on. Products are subject to strict quality control from raw material procurement, spare parts processing, heat treatment, welding, and assembly to finished product shipment. Kingwood stands for quality, service, and reasonable price - core values to which the company is committed.
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